The title means ‘regret’, but Ba Cissoko’s fourth international release is decidedly genial – warmly grooving, albeit with serious intent.

Nimissa sees the Marseilles-based West African band retain its core - and its core values – whilst expanding its size and sound.

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The nephew of a celebrated griot master-musician, Ba Cissoko at first wished for a footballer’s life, not a musician’s. For many years now, however, he has been a musician, equally committed to tradition and to innovation.

Ba is his band’s primary songster. His main instrument is a harp-lute - the 21-stringed kora. His younger cousins Sekou and Kourou Kouyaté are, respectively, the band’s electric kora player and bass guitarist.

The new members are drummer-percussionist Alhassan Camara and guitarist Abdoulaye Kouyate. Also new to Ba Cissoko – and nicely deployed – are brass players from the Ava Saty Marching band.

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2207CD CUT 2, ‘NIMISSA’(presumably) BA CISSOKOPUB NOT SPECCRISTAL CR184to my knowledge, no Australian distribution.available from major online suppliers and from label: www.cristalrecords.comBA CISSOKO – ‘NIMISSA’3: 00The title mans ‘regrets’, but this is a happy, optimistic, funky West African song.

The kora-playing leader is primary singer; his lyric asserts that money may stop, but mankind will go on, and our future should prove sweeter than our past.

2225CD CUT 1 ‘FELENKO YEFE’TRAD WEST AFRICAN, ARR AND ADAPTED BY MOMO WANDEL SOUMAH SONG IS PUBLIC DOMAIN. ARR IS NOT SPEC FONTI MUSICALI FMD 217no Australian distributorYou just may be able to source this from major suppliers, onlineMOMO WANDEL (MOMO WANDEL SOUMAH) – ‘AFRO SWING’8: 02The then-septuagenarian Guinean leader (1926 – 2003) is both airy alto saxophonist and wonderfully gruff male vocalist on this 1999 performance, recorded in Conakry.

He turns a traditional mother’s lament into a quirky, definitely-African blues.

This also features very tasty acoustic guitar, played by Abdoulaye Kouyaté.

(the song’s persona is a mother whose daughter has been taken away by djinns. Allegedly, the spirits take away some of the girls who attend initiation rites, deep in the forest – this mother’s daughter is one of those who have thus not returned.)

2321CD CUT 9, 'BANJUL GIRL'JULDEH CAMARA AND JUSTIN ADAMS REAL WORLD WORKS LTD REALWORLD CDRW170 In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM email: info@theplanetcompany.comwebsite: www.theplanetcompany.comWorldwide: www.realworldrecords.comJUSTIN ADAMS AND JULDEH CAMARA - 'TELL NO LIES'3: 29 Party time! West African, with more than a whiff of Latin... and much exuberance.

2355CD CUT 8, TRAVESÍA’GERARDO NÚÑEZ PUB NOT SPECACT 9534-2In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM email: info@theplanetcompany.com website: www.theplanetcompany.comworldwide: www.actmusic.comGERARDO NÚÑEZ – ‘TRAVESÍA’3: 28 (excerpt)The Spanish author’s flamenco guitar to fore on the latter part of an extended ‘big production’ piece. At its very end, he is alone, and more subdued.

It depicts the journey (travesía) undertaken by his friends Ahmed and Khaleb; they fulfilled their dream of emigrating to Europe, but discovered that the ‘El Dorado’ of their dreams was only ‘gold leaf.’